After a long day at work, the four of us ventured to Surry
Hills for dinner. Felicia had already made a booking at a new restaurant she
read about in the newspaper. We arrived
and the service was fantastic, the wait staff were polite and very courteous. Candice and Felicia ordered the $42 alpaca special
main course and wine. Cassie ordered the “Lomo saltado a lo Morena”, very
tender pieces of charcoal beef. And I
ordered the “Escabeche de Pato”, which is the tender duck breast. We also ordered some side dishes of Pork
Belly, duck and a salad.

The meal was very exciting, this was the first time any of us had tried alpaca.
A lovely experience we have all share now. Alpaca tasted great in my opinion,
after seeing so many photos of alpacas before the meal, I felt quite sad. But
when tasting this type of meat, it was very tender, tasty and the best way to
describe the flavour and texture is ‘lamb’.

We did have a short conversation with the waiter after the meal, about
what he thought alpaca tasted like. He mentioned customers describe it as “in
between camel and lamb”. He then mentioned it tasted more like Camel to him,
but he had never tried lamb himself and we have never tried Camel (what a dilemma).

The meal was delicious, new and exciting flavours I have never tried
before, the overall price was good in general ($200 in total for 4
people). Wait staff were very friendly
and very helpful.

I recommend trying alpaca for those who haven’t; it is a very nice type
of meat and very much worth venturing to this restaurant for.